"harryagain" wrote in message
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"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 17/09/14 13:54, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Clive George wrote:
They were all capitalist countries anyway, first, creating
successful
companies like Volvo, Saab, and others, which provided the financial
base for them to try their socialist experiments.

Socialism is compatible with capitalism surely? Most successful
countries have a mixture of both, and the large ones all do.

Of course. But like all mixtures, getting the proportions right is the
difficult part.


[interesting dystopian analysis snipped]

You've obviously been reading "The Space Merchants" by Frederik Pohl
and Cyril M. Kornbluth (published 1952). It's a novel encompassing
exactly the situation you describe.

I think we are on the edge of a precipice.

More fool you.

Fools like you have been howling like that for millennia now.

There is no way the public and personal debts of this country can be
repaid.

The public and personal debts were MUCH
higher just after WW2 had ended.

Hyper inflation

We're actually seeing DEFLATION in property prices.

or "renage on debt" (Calamity)

Even sillier than you usually manage.

And the Scots will be worse off still if it's Yes.

Even sillier than you usually manage.

The Yes many trigger the collapse.

Even sillier than you usually manage.

All thanks to socialism and Nu Labour.

It wasn’t them that ran up that immense debt
that Britain ended up with after WW1 and WW2.